Valencia’s new Center for Accelerated Training is a clear step forward in the utility of state colleges – formerly known as community colleges – providing practical income-producing skills to its students. The four- to 20-week…;
Articles of Interest
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: OMICRON PTSD
News that a new variant was headed this way from South Africa hit the country this past week like a ton of bricks. Markets collapsed on two separate trading days and again after it was…;
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SCIENTISTS
COVID-19 left 5.2 million people dead. But the good news is that the pandemic was less deadly than the Spanish flu, which left 50 million people dead, thanks to the groundbreaking work of Dr. James…;
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SIDEWALK CAFES
Orlando’s recent approval of Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) incentives to assist restaurants in opening or improving sidewalk cafes is a positive step in the pseudo post-pandemic era in which we are currently operating. Studies by…;
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ELON MUSK’S VICTORY
Competition in the space industry is heating up. After seven months of litigation by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, attempting to dislodge SpaceX from its sole contractor relationship to NASA for Artemis 3, Elon Musk has…;
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: TRANSPORTATION’S FUTURE
West Palm Beach has now joined Lake Nona in planning air-taxi passenger services by 2024-25, through unmanned electric verti-copter drones for short-range commuters. Just this past week, Brightline announced it plans on providing South Florida’s…;
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AUTOMATION
The most recent labor statistics indicate that 4.3 million people left their jobs in the month of August. It reminded me of the 1993 film “Jurassic Park,” in which Jeff Goldblum’s character, horrified that dinosaurs…;
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SHATNER’S STAR TREK
It may not be accurate that William Shatner is going where no man has gone before, but we can say with certainty that he is going where no 90-year-old has. Captain Kirk, the cultural icon…;
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: JOINING DISNEY
In 1959, Cape Canaveral – later renamed Cape Kennedy – was selected to launch the first successful test firing of a Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. In 1965, Uncle Walt announced his plans to build “bigger…;
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY’S LAKE NONA
The deal between Walt Disney World and Tavistock Development to buy 60 acres next to Lake Nona’s Medical City is more than just a real-estate deal. Disney’s intention is to transfer some 2,000 Disney employees…;